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List:       xom-interest
Subject:    Re: [XOM-interest] Are the Attributes and Namespaces classes necessary?
From:       Kevin Herrboldt <kevin () puppethead ! com>
Date:       2002-09-26 18:41:20
Message-ID: 8C9CB502-D17F-11D6-A988-003065F62BE4 () puppethead ! com
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On Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002, at 15:05 US/Central, Elliotte Rusty Harold 
wrote:

> At 2:29 PM -0500 9/25/02, Kevin Herrboldt wrote:
>
>> What about Attribute[] and Namespace[], then? You'd have to add a 
>> Namespace class, but that makes
[...]
> 1. What's the use-case? Simplicity is an explicit goal of XOM, so I 
> don't want to add lots of convenience methods unless they're very 
> helpful.

I've given it some more thought and I find I agree with you. Adding 
methods to return an enumeration of some sort of all elements or 
namespaces doesn't add value that I can think of. Just because 
something can be done doesn't mean it should be.


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